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HR Knowledge 9: Human Resource Management

Thoroughly review the following video:

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

Specifically focus on the key HR functional areas. Now, select any 3 of the functional areas that would be your first, second, and third choices if you could work in HR. List each by priority and briefly explain why you selected your choices.   This is where you can find the video.

Gregg Learning. (2017, July 24). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJhRXBpXTPI

Human Resources Management

12-point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins on all sides, double-spacing. 

Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. You may reference any information from the class textbook, chapters 1-8 in your answers and discussions. Format: APA version 7.

Class textbook: Human Resources Management. Author: Valentine; Meglich; Mathis; Jackson. Publisher: Pearson. Edition: 16th. ISBN: 978-0357033852

Write a 2-page paper to discuss the following: 

4. Recruiting and employer branding should be seen as part of an organizational marketing effort that is linked to the overall image and reputation of the organization and its industry. If you were responsible for enhancing your organization’s employment brand: How would you convince senior leaders that the investment would be worthwhile? Who would you partner with inside and outside your organization to develop and convey your brand message? (Chapter 6. Page 188)

Question #1

Piderit (2000) believes that the definition of the term resistance must incorporate a much broader scope. She states that “a review of past empirical research reveals three different emphases in conceptualizations of resistance: as a cognitive state, as an emotional state, and as a behavior” (p. 784).

The notion that employee resistance can be overcome cognitively suggests that negative thoughts or beliefs about the change exist. Piderit sites, “Watson (1982) who suggests that what is often labeled as resistance is, in fact, only reluctance. Armenakis, Harris, and Mossholder (1993) define resistance in behavioral terms but suggest that another state precedes it: is a cognitive state they call (un)-readiness” (2000, p. 785).

Others attempt to define employee resistance based on the emotional factors exhibited as a result of organizational change. From their early study, Coch and French (1948) acknowledged aggression and frustration in employees as the emotional factors that caused undesirable behaviors and resistance to change. Argyris and Schon (1974, 1978) noted that resistance to change is a defense mechanism caused by frustration and anxiety (Piderit, 2000).

The final aspect of Piderit’s conceptualization focuses on individual behavior in an attempt to define employee resistance to change. She cites Brower and Abolafia (1995) who define resistance as a particular kind of action or inaction. Ashforth and Mael (1998) define resistance as intentional acts of commission (defiance) or omission. Shapiro, Lweicki, and Devine (1995) suggest that willingness to deceive authorities constitutes resistance to change (2000).

Piderit (2000) claims that: although these conceptualizations of overlap somewhat, they diverge in important ways. Finding a way to bring together these varying emphases should deepen our understanding of how employees respond to proposed organizational changes. Each of these three conceptualizations of resistance – as a behavior, an emotion, or a belief – has merit and represents an important part of our experience of response to change. Thus, any definition focusing on one view at the expense of the others seems incomplete (p. 785).

According to Dent & Goldberg (1999), individuals aren’t really resisting the change, but rather they may be resisting the loss of status, loss of pay, or loss of comfort. They claim that, “it is time that we dispense with the phrase resistance to change and find a more useful and appropriate models for describing what the phrase has come to mean – employees are not wholeheartedly embracing a change that management wants to implement” (p. 26).

Taken from : Resistance to Change

IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

What is your understanding of these three types of resistance (use your own words)? Give an example of each type.

Required Reading 

 https://www.newfoundations.com/OrgTheory/Bolognese721.html  

Health Communication

Jean is a health care administrator for a hospital that serves an urban population. Jean is promoting a recent initiative to install a free clinic to provide minor urgent care. Before the hospital can begin allocating resources to install the free clinic, the hospital directors are asking that Jean establish a community meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on what type of medical services the free clinic should provide. Jean would like to announce the community meeting to generate interest.

What considerations should Jean keep in mind when announcing the community meetings? How might Jean integrate the feedback from community members to ensure that the free clinic’s health care services marketing campaign effectively communicates the types of services offered by the free clinic?

For this Discussion, review the resources for this week and reflect on elements of health communication essentials for the role of a health care administrator. Then, consider how trends in health communication might impact your role as a health care administrator and reflect on how health communication influences future health care services marketing campaigns.

By Day 3

Post by a brief explanation of two key elements of health communication that are most essential for a health care administrator and why. Then, explain how one key trend in health communication may affect your role as a health care administrator. Finally, describe one way you might use health communication in a future health care services marketing campaign and explain why.

QUESTIONS

1.In a US work environment, would reading a newspaper or magazine with nude pictures on the cover besexual harassment?

2.If so, would it be sexual harassment in Germany when working for the same company? Why or why not?

3.Frau Knies argues that Rebecca’s request to prohibit Germans from reading newspapers which offend her isno different than prohibiting German women from dressing in ways which offend Islamic immigrantsworking in the plant. Is this a valid argument? Why or why not?

4.What should Rebecca do?

5.What should Rebecca’s company have done to prevent this problem?

View this Ethical Dilemma to learn more about Bill and Joe’s relationship. 

Joe has scheduled a meeting with his management team for next week to talk about the Peninsula Hotel chain contract. He hopes that he will be able to work with them to draft a contract favorable to Peninsula that will ensure its renewal for another year. He is reasonably sure that the contract renewal will ensure his continued success and employment with UWEAR. Bill invites Joe and his family to join them on his yacht for the weekend.

Joe is relieved to get the invitation from Bill because their relationship has been strained lately due to the contract negotiations.

Joe must decide how he will answer Bill’s invitation to join him and his family on their yacht.

Using ethical principles that you have learned thus far to justify your answers, please respond to the following questions in a paper of 500–700 words:  

• What are some reasons why Joe should turn down the invitation?
• What are some reasons why Joe could accept the invitation?
• Does Joe’s relationship with Bill meet the definition of a conflict of interest?

500 words 2 References

Of the roles listed on pages 117–118 in the textbook, which role or roles do you typically assume in groups, teams, and meetings? Identify two tasks and two social roles you usually do not assume. Why do you not assume these roles? Be sure to cite your definitions of your tasks and roles using at least your textbook as a source. 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Develop an agenda for an upcoming meeting. Develop a meeting goal or goals, and identify the sequence of agenda items. After you have written your agenda, write a brief explanation of why you structured your agenda as you did. 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Attend a public meeting, such as your local school board, city council, or campus council, or reflect upon a meeting you have attended in the past. Using the principles and skills discussed in this chapter, evaluate the meeting using the five principles of leadership. Were group members self-aware and aware of comments and actions of others? How effectively did group members use verbal messages to make their points and organize their ideas? Did nonverbal messages provide supportive and positive reinforcement of others’ comments? How effectively did group members listen and respond to messages? What evidence did you find that group members appropriately adapted their message to others during the course of their conversations? 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Discussion Forum 5 – Children and Working from Home

POST CONTRIBUTION 1:
Select a specific employer and discuss whether employees of the employer you selected should be allowed to supervisor children if working from home.  Select only employers that allow work from home, i.e. we all know that a trauma surgeon cannot work from home and supervise children 🙂  Try not to repeat an employer that has already been selected.  I would suggest that you include your own employer if working from home is an option.  The crux of this discussion is the rationale behind allowing employees working from home to supervise children or not.  What parameters, if any, should be put into place to deal with this situation?

POST CONTRIBUTION 2:

For employers, childcare for employees working from home is an issue.  Employers may not benefit from a situation where employees are forced to take PTO or leave without pay.  However, the decisions that are made now may impact long-term employee expectations.  Many employers are reaching for the most flexible options available with the hope that employees will return the flexibility and concern when the current employment situation finally improved.

For an illustration of the challenges of addressing work from home and childcare, look at Florida State University.  The institution sent a memo to employees in June stating that employees could not care for their children while working from home.  The backlash was significant and immediate.  Within a few days, the university changed the policy to allow employees to care for children while working from home.  

Employers are challenged by this situation.  The large number of closed late summer camps and online schools for Fall 2020 indicate that this issue will not be quickly resolved. 

Be creative.  (You do not have to address the needs of a specific employer as in Post 1.)  How can employers help to address the childcare questions for/with employees?  Essentially, how can employers creatively and proactively help address the childcare void?

Has to be in your own words. 

Can NOT be less than 500 words

NO PLAGIARISM !!!!!!!

Chicago City Hall is conducting a hearing for citizens’ responses to the Consent Decree. Identify your role as a citizen (mother, student, community leader, business person, etc.). Write a statement for the hearing giving a suggestion for improvements, additions or edits for the Consent Decree, including a rationale for these suggestions.

In at least one of your replies, take on the persona of a public administrator. Offer a response to a classmates’ statement explaining why their idea is or is not plausible. Make sure your rationale is clear and appropriate.

I have an assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment.